"You can listen to a birdsong, and from the content of the birdsong, you will be able to determine whether or not the bird grew up in a noise-polluted environment or whether it grew up in a pristine, clean environment. Isn't that incredible?"

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Gordon Hempton

#Bird Quotes #Environment Quotes #Incredibles Quotes

“I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.”
“I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.”
“I don't shave when I'm not working.”
“Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses.”

Source : James Oppenheim, “Bread And Roses”
“It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.”

Source : "Jane Asher: this much I know". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole process with their own sort of system of making the music. It gives it a much more personal individual feel, like unique feel, when somebody has a really idiosyncratic set-up, or they just have what might be considered strange ways of going about the process that yields results that are not just cookie-cutter sounds like everything else... and I think that can only be a positive thing.”
“In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.”

Source : "MPs back 24-week abortion limit", news.bbc.co.uk. May 20, 2008.
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.”

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